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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South



Biography
Author Profession: Clergyman
Nationality: English
Born: 1634
Died: 1716

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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Robert South

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South

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Words
Begins, Incomprehensible, Mind, Paradoxical, Substances, The Mind, Things, Unnatural
Definitions
Incomprehensible, Mind, Paradoxical, Unnatural
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